S1: Morning Prayer

To Start the Day

Heavenly Father, You are wanted here.

Jesus, You are welcomed here.

Holy Spirit, You are embraced here.

Make Yourself at home for I am Your willing apprentice. Where I am not yet willing, I want to be. Where I do not yet want to be willing, I want to want to be willing.

This is a day made by You. I will rejoice in it, for You are in it with me. You are life's greatest good.

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So as John Wesley would pray to open his day, so I open mine:

I am no longer my own but Yours,

put me to what You will,

rank me with whom You will;

put me to doing,

put me to suffering;

Let me be exalted for You or brought low for You;

let me be full,

let me be empty;

let me have all things,

let me have nothing;

I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal.

And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. And the Covenant which I have made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.

(Amen)